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SGI Intros Supercomputer With Intel Nehalem EX
The SGI Altix UV high-performance computing system reaches 18.6 teraflop per second.
IBM Launches Business Analytics Cloud
Big Blue deploys cloud computing internally while also offering the service to customers.
MicroStrategy BI License Revenues Up 39%
The business intelligence application vendor's performance is in striking contrast to the broader software industry.
SAP, Nokia Partner On Mobile Security
With the joint venture's technology, prescription drugs, software, and other goods could be tagged with smart barcodes to protect them from counterfeiting.
IBM Intros BI Tools For Unstructured Data
Content Analytics is a set of business intelligence tools designed to analyze e-mail, blogs, reports, and other external data.
CIA Invests In Social Media Monitoring Technology
Investment arm In-Q-Tel is funding Visible Technologies, making its online brand analysis capabilities available to U.S. intelligence agencies.
Q&A: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer On Sharepoint 2010
The Microsoft CEO lays out the company's Internet-facing strategy for its enterprise collaboration tool, SharePoint 2010.
MicroStrategy Releases Free Starter Business Intelligence
The software enables companies to develop and deploy Web-based reporting applications.
Global CIO: Oracle's Larry Ellison Gets Served By Netezza CEO Jim Baum
At Oracle Open World, Ellison got called out by Netezza's CEO who told him to start focusing on the priorities of the people whose purchases fuel Oracles' $25 billion in annual revenue: CIOs.
SAP, HP Integrate BI Tools
Improved integration between SAP Business Warehouse and HP Neoview could help stave off competition from Oracle/Sun's Exadata 2.
IBM Updates BPM Suite v7
Addition of the ILOG JRules business rules engine enhances the enterprise business process management tool.
Following Review, VA Restarts Some IT Projects
CIO Roger Baker credits a new project management accountability system with facilitating decision making at the federal agency.
Global CIO: SAP 2.0 Promises Business Value Over Products: Can It Deliver?
If SAP can deliver on the vision of its Chief Value Officer, it will make available to CIOs best practices, benchmark metrics, and breakthrough thinking and innovation.
Compuware To Acquire Gomez For $295 Million
The move will enable Compuware to offer peformance management to customers with apps in the cloud.
Pentaho Buying SaaS From LucidEra
LucidEra's Clearview interactive reporting tool will become the front-end interface of Pentaho's business intelligence product line.
Cloudera Launches Desktop Interface
Cloudera is trying to make Hadoop, used by Google, Amazon and Yahoo for data analysis, useful as a business intelligence tool.
E-Medical Data Valuable To Health Industry
If the healthcare industry can overcome challenges in unlocking data in electronic medical records, those databases could become their most valuable assets.
E-Health Records Could Flag Domestic Abuse
Predictive computer models that tap into electronic health records highlight subtle patterns of domestic violence that are easy to miss.
Personalized Health Project Integrates E-Medical Data, DNA
The Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaboration platform will be used to develop treatments tailored to patients' genetic and other health-related profile.
Oracle To Acquire HyperRoll
HyperRoll's Data Performance Management Suite draws data out of all major databases to speed up reporting of financial results.
Microsoft Open Source Advocate Joins Startup
Sam Ramji, former head of Microsoft's Open Source Labs is now VP of strategy at Sonoa Systems, a startup focused on a key measure of how the Web 2.0 will operate.
Federal Contracting Databases Prone To Errors
The GSA will award a contract in October to re-architect databases rife with inaccuracies, duplications, and poor system capabilities.
Talend Acquires Master Data Management Firm
The data integration supplier will convert Amalto's assets into open source code for master data management.
Microsoft, Nvidia Team On GPU
The companies are collaborating to promote NVIDIA Tesla graphics processing units to operate with Windows HPC Server 2008.
NetSuite Offers ERP iPhone App
The app, which provides access to NetSuite's on-demand enterprise-resourcing planning and CRM suite, is another example of business SaaS going mobile.
Oracle To Offer SaaS To Midsize Customers
Mid-market software-as-a-service will include the option of subscription-based pricing, the software company said.
Global CIO: Apple's Next Billion-Dollar Idea: The Enterprise Mobility iCloud
Apple has a massive opportunity--and unique qualifications--to connect hundreds of millions of mobile workers with enterprise data and information through Apple's Next Big Thing: the iCloud.
InformationWeek 500: A Year Of Relentless Innovation
Despite economic challenges, this year's InformationWeek 500 companies had the vision and guts to keep trying new ideas.
InformationWeek 500: How We Selected The Companies On Our List
It's a rigorous process that includes quantitative and qualitative assessments of business tech innovation. Are you ready to make our 2010 list?
InformationWeek 500: Wells Fargo Pushes For Customer-Facing Innovation
ATM features such as envelope-free banking are typical of how it strives for a better user experience.
InformationWeek 500: BI, Web Top Strategies For Consumer Goods Companies
Turning to business intelligence to manage costs.
InformationWeek 500: Insurers Spend On IT To Cut Costs Elsewhere
Insurance is one of only a few industries where 2009 IT spending is expected to exceed 2008.
InformationWeek 500: Retail Buys Into Efficiency, Lowering Costs
Analytics and social media among tactics one company uses.
InformationWeek 500: Hard-Hit Logistics Industry Makes Deep Cuts In IT
Companies are keeping strong focus on making business processes more efficient.
IW500: Coke, Harrah's, Chevron Discuss Innovation
IT executives at the InformationWeek 500 conference tell about innovative uses for RFID and touchscreen technology.
CA Acquires NetQoS For $200 Million
The cash-based purchase will give CA a stronger play for cloud management and application performance management business.
SuccessFactors Spins Business Execution Suite
New strategies by SuccessFactors and Taleo show how SaaS vendors plan to maintain strong growth.
Business Intelligence Beckons CIOs, IBM Study Finds
To make their organizations leaner and meaner, CIOs are looking to data mining and data analysis.
Salesforce.com, RightNow Embrace Social Networking
Cloud computing-based customer relationship management software is particularly suitable for integrating with social networking sites.
IT Energy Efficiency Slips In Priority
Recessionary pressures are causing many to trim up-front costs at the expense of longer-term energy savings.
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